Middle Ages

Depending on who you ask a medieval English Longbowman under battlefield conditions was able to shoot 6 to 12 arrows per minute. When we combine that with large numbers of…

Today cheating is pretty common in competitive sports. But is cheating a modern phenomenon or did people in the past, like for example medieval knights, also cheat? And if so,…

When we think of a medieval tournament then we usually think of the joust. Two knights in heavy armor charge at each other in lanes that are separated by a…

When we think of medieval battles than we usually imagine large-scale fighting between large armies that leaves behind a large number of fallen knights. But was that really the case?…